Portable wardrobe.



PATBNTED FEB. 27, 1906.

N. RYAN. PORTABLE WARDROBE.

APPLIOATION FILED JULY 26, 1905.

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PORTABLE WARDROBE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 27, 1906.

Application filed July 26, 1905. Serial No. 271,297.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NORA RYAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Wardrobes, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings and the reference characters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

end-wall curtain detached. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same, showing a portion of the end-wall curtain broken away with the front-wall curtain detached. Fig. 3 is a view in perspective 'of one of the oppositely-disposed vertical frames detached and partly folded. Fig. 4 is an edge view of the frame shown in Fig. 3 folded closely together. Fig. 5 is a view in perspective of one of the wedgeshaped keys used in looking the folding frames in position for use. Fig. 6 is a View in perspective of one of the cross-bars detached, used to connect together the two folding frames.

The vertical folding frames are shown in open position at the opposite ends of the wardrobe in Fig. 1, and the frame shown on the right-hand end of this figure is also shown partly folded in Fig. 3. These frames are made up of two sections 1 and 2 and are secured together by means of butt-hinges 3, whereby the sections of the frame can be closed together, as shown in Fig. 4, or opened, as shown in Fig. 1. The frame on the lefthand side of Fig. 1 is of similar form with the sections 4 and 5, secured together by hinges 6 inthe same way that the sections of the oppositely-located frame are secured together. The upper section of each folding frame has in its top rail a tenon-mortise 8 and on one end a projection 9, adapted to support one end of the front curtain-pole 37. The lower sections of the folding frames are each provided in their upper rail 12 with a tenon-mortise 14, adapted to receive the tenons 15 of the cross-bar 16. (Shown in Fig. 6.) The tenons 15 are each provided with a mortise 17, adapted to receive a wedge-shaped key 18 when the parts are set up ready for use.

In setting up the parts the folding frames are first opened and raised to a vertical position and the tenons of the cross-bar 1 6 inserted in the mortises 14 of the top rail of the lower section, as shown in Fig. 1. The wedgeshaped keys are then inserted in the tenonmortises 17 and driven in with sufficient force to draw the mortise-rails of the lower sections tightly against the tenon-shoulders 19 of the cross-bar 16. In a similar manner the other cross-bar 20 serves to hold the up per section of the folding frame together, the tenons,21 being inserted through mortises 8 in the upper rail of the upper section and held therein by means of the wedge-shaped keys 22, inserted through mortises in the tenons, as shown in Fig. 1. By having the crossbars 16 and 20 of considerable width, so that the tenon-shoulders 19 are a considerable distance apart, the frame-sections have an extended bearing thereon and are held rigidly in place by means of the wedge-shaped keys, which draw them up tightly against the tenon-shoulders.

When desired, the structure may be further strengthened and made more rigid by means of a diagonal brace-rod 25, secured, as shown in Fig. 1, at its lower end to the bottom rail of the lower section of the folding frame by means of the screw-bolt 26 passing through the rail and through an eye 27 on the lower end of the brace-rod and secured in position by means of the thumb-nut 28. The upper end of the brace-rod is similarly secured to the cross-bar 16 by means of the screw-bolt 29 and thumb-nut 30.

When desired, a detachable bottom may be provided for the wardrobe, consisting of an ordinary board 32, resting on the bottom rails of the oppositely-disposed lower sections of the folding frames, the board being provided with a slot 33 to allow the passage therethrough of the lower end of the bracerod 25.

The front-wall curtain 35 (shown partly broken away for convenience of illustration) is secured by the rings 36 to the pole 37 in the usual manner, and the pole may be detachably secured to the supporting-frames in any known manner. The end curtain 38, partly broken away, is similarly secured to the pole 39, supported by brackets on the top rail of the upper section of the folding frame.

When desired, the upper rail may be provided with a detachable hat-support 41, secured to depending projections 42, forming a part of the cross-bar 20.

My improved wardrobe may be )rovided with any of the well-known forms 0" hangers for supporting various articles of clothing as, for example, with the cross-rods 50, secured at their ends to the oppositely-disposed folding frames and adapted to support the coat-hook 52 or any other detachable garment-support and also adapted to directly support garments, as the trousers 53. The rod 55, fastened one end at 56 and-the other end at 57 upon the depending projections from the cross-bar 20, is adapted to support other articles, as the necktie 58. At one end of the wardrobe 1 have shown the slip per-case 60 secured to the lower section of one of the folding frames, as by hooks 61.

I am thus able to easily and cheaply provide a convenient wardrobe which can be taken down and folded compactly together in a very small compass, such as to enable it to be placed in an ordinary traveling trunk and taken from house to house or room to room, as may be desired, thus enabling a tenant or temporary occu ant of a room to provide himself or herse f with a convenient and ornamental wardrobe which can be easily taken down and carried away to another room whenever the occupant finds it desirable to make a change of rooms, whereas the permanent wardrobe if fixed to the walls of the house or room must necessarily be left behind and lost to the former occupant, or if not fixed to the walls of the room its size would render it inconvenient as well as eX- pensive and frequently wholly impracticable to move the wardrobe from house to house.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with a pair of o positelydisposed frames composed of f0 ding sections; of a cross-bar, means for detachably securing the ends of the cross-bar each to the upper end of one of the opposite folding sections; and a diagonal brace-rod detachably secured by thumb-nuts, one end to a folding section and the other end to said cross-bar between its ends.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of July, 1905.

NORA RYAN.

Witnesses:

GEO. A. MosHER, E. M. OREILLY. 

